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January 2012 Grocery Challenge
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Sounds like a plan Ninno :idea: :T
Think that must be a typo as its almost double your budget.
In a world that has decided that it's going to lose its mind, be more kind my friend, try to Be More Kind
M&S for dine in deals, got £45 of food for £20 so very happy. I got the chicken deal twice and managed to find chickens work £9.08 and £8.68, both over 2kg. One will do several meals and lunches this week and the other is in the freezer. I used a £5 off a £25 spend voucher and a gift card so I never spent any money. I'm adding the amount to by total and popping the £20 in my holiday fund though.
Went to L*dl for the rest of what I needed and spent £43 but this included 8 pork chops which were on offer at £1.90 for 4, 5 bags of bread flour for my new bread maker, 10 cartons of juice, 8 beers and 2 bottles of wine, 6 mozarellas as I now make my own pizza and a 7.5kg bag of potatoes for £2. I was amazed at how much stuff I got for so little!
Called in Sainsbobs as I needed cornmeal for a recipe and only spent £3. Thinking of going back tomorrow though as De Cecco linguine in half price and I should have got more than 2. Kicking myself for not getting about 10 of these.
Got home and decided to go to As*a for yeast and the 50p tomatoes. Ended up spending £33 but got 20 cans of tomatoes to stock up on as I'm going to be making my own tomato sauces for pizza etc, some soup and a couple of months stock of fizzy drink cans that were on offer at 8 for £2 for us both to take to work. Spent about £18 on these but it's much better than us both paying 80p each for a can while we're at work.
I'm now up to £153 this month out of my £250 budget but I've got loads more food in stock and don't need much for the rest of the month now.
going to costco on monday to stock up on a few bits so that will cost a bit
take care tess
Very true, I realised today that A*d*'s own organic cannellini beans are cheaper per KG than their basic range!
I havent got my reciept to hand but must report two spends one of approx £5.60 last night in Mr T's but did find that Philly 300g family pack is on offer for 97p, also got YS bananas for 52p as well as the rest of the ingredients i needed for a lemon and lime cheesecake. OH says its the best thing he has ever tasted!
Last night I also made the sausage, leek and apple pie from the recipe page... now I have to admit I was dubious but it was GORGEOUS.
Went to Mr A for food for the week for the two of us. Spent £15 but they had run out of beef meat joints. OH has said we can use his M&S vouchers to get one tomorrow.
Out of interest people have mentioned a £5 off £25 spend in M&S, is this something that can be printed out or did it come through the post?
Wishing you all a good evening, off to morph chilli into buritos for dinner and then some cheesecake!
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Ah sweetie hugs to ya......you have been through the mill, other people can be so cruel. My postnatal was bought on with 2nd child, our 1st died when I had pre-eclampsia and he was born early. It was when the consultants told me I could not have a baby naturally cos of my hips, went to pieces inside, then DD had whooping cough at 3 weeks old and stayed in hosp till she was 9 weeks, don't remember much of DD's first year
PS you DO sound a nice person, sh*t only happens to the best people :grouphug::grouphug:
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some totals to add
£21.86 - C0stc0
£1.89 - forgot my lunch so had to buy
£8.18 - Tesco
So another £31.93 all in all
bought a couple bits from boots too (nappies mainly) but used my advantage card points so not going to add.....hope thats right..
Brings my total to £123.58 and we're halfway(ish) through the month......I think I may be on target here!